Chit for chat

How do you think he spends his days?

What do you mean?

I mean, the hour by hour stuff. He can’t possibly do it all in one day...

Well, like all the rest of us I guess. Just trying to get it all done.

Yeah, I guess. But how does he get so much done? Like that video, he put it together himself, you can tell.

Yeah, he is incredible. No doubt about it. Remember, he has ‘people’.

Of course. I am not saying he is solely responsible for any of it. You can’t argue the fact that he’s the inspiration for all the organizations, he is the ‘special sauce’.

Absolutely.

So I guess what I am asking is really, how does he have time to be inspirational?

Now I really don’t understand what you are asking.

Inspiration takes time.

Doing takes time.

So, even if inspiration were instantaneous, creating something out of nothing is certainly doing something.

Ok.

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What about Oprah?

I don’t know about Oprah, I’m the wrong person to ask.

You know enough. She has a ranch with animals, a lush vegetable garden, a long time boyfriend, she reads books and then there is all the ‘work’ she manages....

And…the people.

Some people are more work than they are worth. She doesn’t look overworked. Ever. And she is still inspiring others, excuse me, women.

Yes, I concede your point there. Perhaps these two have hacked time. Have you googled it?

That is the question I am asking you. I'm googling you. How do they spend their time accruing free time? Are you not an accountant?

I don’t do payroll. I outsource.

Well, that was time well spent.

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Look at Smokey, he’s such a handsome cat. So happy he is today. He looks like a lion. 

He sleeps all day, he gets treats from you, he hogged the bed again last night...I’d be in a good mood too.

A restful sleep is priceless. Likewise, a peaceful mind is invaluable.

Ignorance is bliss...

No, that’s not what I was alluding to. I was thinking that brilliance is magnetized toward those stepping out of the light.

Now I’m in the dark. Weren’t we talking about Time or Money?

Electrodynamics, Economics, GDP, IP and bright people. Bright people make time. It is inspiring.

And you're adorable.

I'd rather be wise.

Painting by Jean Béraud [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Drive

The middle-aged man scissor strides wide down the empty sidewalk across the freeway overpass around lunchtime. The intersection is always busy.

Blue painters tape he has wrapped around the left boot, black steel-tipped toed hooves which smack carelessly atop the gold and silver glittering cement in a usual left, right way.

He twists his swaying hands in fists, turning them clenched in and out of sync with his inefficient gait.
He sneers around and his hair is trim. He wears a buttoned-up baby blue collared shirt with light black bulging cargo pants, masking knobby legs to show he was prepared for anything.

He wasn't, clearly.

It was hard to tell where he was going faster than all the fancy new cars jammed atop the asphalt
all around him.

Two million dollars blowing smoke and going nowhere faster than he fidgets.

It is easy to think of all the miles he must have traveled and all the wealth he has casually passed by and free ways he must have walked over, all the while, the important ones are collectively waiting in line and he is wearing out his durable souls going somewhere, believing the blue tape will work better than becoming a new man,
just before I lost sight of him
for good.